with the intention of being a young adult book, but when published it was placed in the YA section and labeled thus so. I would never claim to be an expert on YA fiction, but as someone who has consumed a wide range of YA books I can tell the difference between a book written for a teenage audience and a book that merely has a teenage protagonist. While Lucy contains a teenage protagonist and written at a level that can be read and understood by teenage readers, it is not a YA novel. Finding a book
Literature Imagine having no rights and being enslaved to someone else, forced to obey their every command or be killed. This is what life was like for women and slaves in the 18th century. They had very few rights and were forced to obey the commands of someone who had been chosen to rule over them. Nowhere is this shown more than in the novel Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. In this novel, two characters are victims of slavery and oppression. These two characters are Isabel, a black slave, and Madam